The film's cinematography conveys a constant dream-like atmosphere, equipped with tactful lighting and perfectly placed shadows that make the ... within the classic film noir genre. Musuraca's ...

Born from post-war paranoia and hardboiled crime stories, directors like John Huston, Sam Fuller, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles shaped the genre, using shadows, smoke, and sharp dialogue to show us ...

On the other hand, Film Noir is concerned with private ... and spaces cut and splintered by oppressive, unrealistic shadows. Films noir leads, to borrow Paul Schrader’s definition, can fall ...